Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.
—Carl Sandburg, 1936
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“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
—Milan Kundera, 1990If law and justice do not attain their ends, the people will be unable to move hand or foot.
—Confucius, c. 500Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.
—Instructions of Ankhsheshonqy, c. 100 BCOften the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them; it is destiny which makes them prudent.
—Voltaire, 1764The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.
—Tacitus, c. 117Avoid the law—the first loss is generally the least.
—Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee, 1844Some people make stuff; other people have to buy it. And when we gave up making stuff, starting in the 1980s, we were left with the unique role of buying.
—Barbara Ehrenreich, 2008I used to think that everyone was just being funny. But now I don’t know. I mean, how can you tell?
—Andy Warhol, 1970I work for a government I despise for ends I think criminal.
—John Maynard Keynes, 1917A man is not idle, because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
—Victor Hugo, 1862Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded.
—The Dhammapada, c. 400 BCLord, I do not ask that thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.
—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1898